Gwen Snyder is uncivilReflecting on winter solstice themes is a strange jaunt this year because we are in such a cold political winter right now.
Not a time with a whole lot of flowers or sunshine or harvest to be had
There's Mamdani and there's anti-ICE resistance and those are the two bright colors out in our political wilds for the moment as best I can think. Pretty grim, otherwise.
Tess Arnold@gwensnyder.bsky.social An important thing to remember about the Winter Solstice is that, way back before Christianity became the default religion for Western Europeans, the folk who gave us something like our modern, western version of winter celebrations did not think of Winter they way we do now. To them, Winter was not death.
Winter was pregnancy.
The gestational dormancy before birth.
Winter is the time when new things grow unseen.
I find hope in that.
Winter was pregnancy.
The gestational dormancy before birth.
Winter is the time when new things grow unseen.
I find hope in that.